possibly referring to this this paragraph probably explains it all gteven more jarring is simmons bizarre sometimes overtly offensive dialogue one asian character actually says ah so and an africanamerican prisoner named delroy nigger brown punctuates his speech with repeated phrases like you know what im sayin and you know what im tellin you in one strikingly tonedeaf moment the lapsedliberal professor fox condemns politicians of the past the books past our present who werent sufficiently proisrael i wish those presidents and senators and representatives had been hanged from lampposts all over washington